Oh, my goodness... amazing tracking and yet - what a loss. Thinking about you at this beautiful season and it looks like you still have green gras and no snow as well - we had the wind and now the rain.Have a wonderful Christmas...Bethanyxxo

There is a Japanese term I learned some time ago ... "Kintsukuroi" ...literally meaning 'to repair with gold'. It involves the art of repairing broken pottery with a gold or silver lacquer with the understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken ... your tree trunk reminds of the latter part of this. :-)